Chapter 423. Authorizing the appropriation of $2,500 for the erection of a tablet or marker at Sir Walter Raleigh Fort on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, to Virginia Dare, the first child of English parentage to be born in America
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CHAP. 423.— An Act Authorizing the appropriation of $2,500 for the erection of a tablet or marker at Sir Walter Raleigh Fort on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, to Virginia Dare, the first child of English parentage to be born in America.May 29, 1926.[[H. R. 5683](/us/bill/69/hr/5683).][[Public, No. 313](/us/pl/69/313).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Roanoke Island, N. C.Tablet authorized at Sir Walter Raleigh Fort on, the birthplace Of Virginia Darts*Post*, p. 877.
That the sum of $2,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated to be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the erection of a tablet or marker at Sir Walter677 Raleigh Fort on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in memory of Virginia Dare, who was born there on August 18, 1587, and who was the first child of English parentage to be born in America. Approved, May 29, 1926.